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Author Nappo, Christian A., 1976- author.

Title The Librarians of Congress / Christian A. Nappo
Published Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 140 pages)
Contents A brief history of the Library of Congress -- John James Beckley : Jefferson's first librarian -- Patrick Magruder : the unfortunate librarian -- George Watterston : the librarian of letters -- John Silva Meehan : the Jacksonian librarian -- John Gould Stephenson : the Civil War era librarian -- Ainsworth Rand Spofford : the transformational librarian -- John Russell Young : the journalist librarian -- George Herbert Putnam : the modern librarian -- Archibald MacLeish : the literary librarian -- Luther Harris Evans : the diplomatic librarian -- Lawrence Quincy Mumford : the administrative librarian -- Daniel Joseph Boorstin : the scholar librarian -- James Hadley Billington : the Russian studies scholar librarian
Summary For over 200 years the Library of Congress has served as our national library. Since its establishment in 1800, thirteen librarians have served as the institution's head librarian. Sadly, little is known about most of them. The Librarians of Congress is the first book to contain the biographies of all these librarians. Beginning with a brief history of the Library of Congress, the book then contains short biographies of each of the thirteen Librarians of Congress, beginning with John J. Beckley and ending with James H. Billington
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Library of Congress -- Biography
Library of Congress -- History
SUBJECT Library of Congress fast
Subject National librarians -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- General.
National librarians
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021677132
ISBN 9781442262614
1442262613